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file footage

American  

noun

Television.
  1. film footage already on file; stock footage of crowds, cityscapes, football games, etc.


Example Sentences

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People watch a TV broadcasting file footage of a news report on North Korea firing what appeared to be a pair of ballistic missiles off its east coast, in Seoul, South Korea, September 15, 2021.

From Reuters • Sep. 15, 2021

You can see in the file footage that you used at the beginning of the segment that I still have lesions on my face from that illness.

From Seattle Times • Apr. 7, 2018

The company says it was created overnight from file footage and narrated by an agency art director who had never done voiceover work.

From Washington Times • Feb. 2, 2015

All of this was done to a booming soundtrack and lots of file footage of protests and things exploding.

From Slate • Aug. 24, 2011

So we see file footage on everyone from Sharpe James, a former mayor of Newark, to James Treffinger, a former Essex County executive, to James E. McGreevey, the governor who resigned.

From New York Times • Oct. 24, 2010

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